Day Labor (2012)

“Day Labor” represent its subjects waiting in their respective day-labor sites – individuals, in competition with one another, laboring by waiting. One worker commented to me that it was harder work to wait without finding a job than it was to be physically at work. In “Day Labor,” each worker is paid to wait for the author – and the viewer. We see a series of movements from total alienation and spatial disconnect to more specific, factual statements by the subjects. The viewer, in turn, must share this agonizing waiting with the workers without work...